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Nerder She Wrote with David Aldridge: Wiz-Wall, Anthony Davis, Rockets-Harden

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🗓️ 20 December 2018

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Nerder She Wrote: Dave DuFour, David Thorpe and special guest Hall of Fame reporter, David Aldridge from the Athletic DC

https://theathletic.com/dc/

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Rundown: 

Favorite Holiday drinks

Wizards / Wall 

Dwight Howard

Wall's effort / inconsistency 

LeBron and Anthony Davis

Celtics have better assets with Kyrie caveat

Stars playing with LeBron 

Chris Bosh as an example

Too many stars in Boston

Rockets / James Harden / West

What are you watching Coach?

Too many 3s a problem?

Final thoughts

Appreciate The Game

LeBron's message to his son

End

 

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0:50.1

Nerder she wrote. I am your host, Dave DeFore, joining me as always. My coach and

0:55.7

compadre, coach David Thorpe, coach, uh, in my never-ending quest to turn this into a food

1:01.7

and beverage podcast, I have to ask, what is your go-to holiday drink? Oh boy. I don't, I mean,

1:10.0

absolutely don't have one. Um, uh, I like one. I like whiskey. I like bourbonne. I like gin. I like vodka. I don't like rum very much. I don't drink much at all. You know, typically one night a week, two a night in that night. And on the holidays, I'm watching games., I'm Jewish, obviously. So every Christmas morning,

1:28.6

my wife and our twins who are now 17, we, this year, we owe to a movie. This year we're going

1:35.1

to see Ruth Bader Ginsburg's, the movie about her with my parents who are so alive at 78 and 77.

1:41.6

And then we're going to have lunch at some Chinese place or a Jewish deli that's open

1:46.1

and have my parents and my kids and I all talk about the movie and what we learned. And then we go to,

1:51.6

we go to family. My wife was raised Catholic. And I won't drink at all Christmas Day.

1:56.2

What about you? I'm an eggnog guy, but there's so much sugar that I don't really drink it much.

2:02.0

So I give myself like four ounces a year, basically, but it's delicious.

2:08.4

Joining us this week is a very special guest, Hall of Fame reporter, and more importantly, a Hall of Fame person.

2:16.8

One of my favorite people in basketball from the Athletic D.C.

2:20.8

and a DeMatha High School alum, David Aldridge, how are you, David, and do you like Eggnog?

2:29.1

I'm doing fine.

2:31.8

I don't hate eggnog, but it's not on the top of the list. I suppose if someone put a

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